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TechCrunch AIValleyAnthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI running amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.

TechCrunch AIValleyHugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue," take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.

TechCrunch AIValleyAnthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November…

TechCrunch AIValleySpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations SpaceX hit profitability in the third quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.

TechCrunch AIValleyOpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio to beef up its biotech business OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help…

TechCrunch AIValleyGoogle has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.

TechCrunch AIValleyChatGPT now lets you lock your chats The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their…

TechCrunch AIValleyEric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger.

TechCrunch AIValleyMeta’s Muse hits 10M US downloads in 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.

TechCrunch AIValleyEx-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in its LEGO era’ It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.

TechCrunch AIValleyPlants can speak using electricity, so this startup built an AI model to decipher their language Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.

TechCrunch AIValleyFigma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol Figma said it plans to support as many standards as possible without exposing all of its data.

TechCrunch AIValleyUS orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems The U.S. has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.

TechCrunch AIValleyEka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking up a wide range of objects, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.

TechCrunch AIValleyYelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences.

TechCrunch AIValleyOtter AI raises $320M from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation.

TechCrunch AIValleyMamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.

TechCrunch AIValleyNscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45B compute deal If the deal goes through, it would be the latest in a long string of giant compute deals Anthropic has struck over the past year.

TechCrunch AIValleyEmbedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a…

TechCrunch AIValleyMicrosoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’ Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents that employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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